The Traders Journal

About the authors:Gatis Roze, CMT, holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a past president of the Technical Securities Analysts Association (TSAA).
He is also the co-author of Tensile Trading: The 10 Essential Stages of Stock Market Mastery (Wiley, 2016).
A full-time investor for over 25 years, Gatis has taught sold-out investment courses throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond since 2000.
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I’ve been teaching investment courses across North America for over 18 years now – in seminars, at conferences, to professional organizations and, most recently, through our own investment education company, Stock Market Mastery. By last count, I’ve had over 5,000 students.
When it comes to different investor types, I’ve pretty much seen it all. When I step back and look at the big picture, the most common prerequisite for success as an investor that I’ve witnessed is the willingness and ability to pull the trigger — in other words, to take action.
Having said
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Well, I did it again. Yesterday morning, I joined Tom Bowley and Erin Swenlin on MarketWatchers LIVE as part of the weekly "Everything StockCharts" segment, which covers important tips, tricks and other information that all StockCharts users can benefit from.
My appearance was a demonstration in styleChartStyle!
With my very own StockCharts account up on the screen, I showed off the custom ChartStyles I use daily and explained how I've organized them (using StyleButtons) to maximize my use of the ShapCharts Workbench. My ChartStyles have
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Steve Jobs famously challenged everyone when he said, “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else be here?”
I was fortunate recently to spend a couple of days in Napa Valley at the DENT 2018 conference. There’s nothing like spending quality time with lots of exceptional people to get oneself re-energized and refocused. Not unlike our upcoming Investor Boot Camp. The wisdom, insights and passion at DENT 2018 covered a very wide spectrum, of topics. But since my soundtrack translates much of what I experience back to investing, those are the
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The other morning, I joined Tom Bowley and Erin Swenlin on their daily MarketWatchers LIVE web show. My appearance was part of the weekly "Everything StockCharts" segment, which covers important tips, tricks and other information that all StockCharts users can benefit from.
The show got a little, well personal!
I put my very own StockCharts account up on the screen and shared the unique ChartList organization that I use to watch the markets and my portfolios. Plus, I shared a very important "Tip of the Day" and demonstrated how to create a helpful
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Yes, the markets are extended. All prudent investors should be reviewing the Permission-to-Sell Dashboard (ChartList 10.4) every week. We’ve added another useful market timing chart and made all 15 charts more muscular.
The times are a’ changing in the ETF arena as well. Hundreds are closing and new smart beta ETFs are being added. This update reflects those profound changes.
The same is true for you sector investors. There have been tectonic shifts in the composition of the S&P Sector ETFs which are reflected in ChartLists 401-409 (see below). As always, we’ve mined the
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Over 25 years of full-time trading, it’s been my experience that, as an investor, one moves ahead by looking back. In other words, reviewing my 2017 Trading Journal will improve my 2018 results. Indeed, the tenth and final stage of Stock Market Mastery is to Revisit, Retune and Refine. It’s a proven discipline that keeps on giving year after year.
Having just reviewed my 2017 journal over the holidays, I’ll share with you the key lesson this year. It can be encapsulated literally in a single word: PATIENCE. For this blog, I’ll focus on my individual stocks to illustrate how I applied
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Alright, I know. It's a little cliche. But hey, not only is it a Friday, it's also the last Friday of the year. And not only is it the last Friday of the year, it's also the final trading day of 2017 (can you believe that??). And what do you do on the final trading day of the year? Well, you look ahead to the new year of course!
Now, I for one am about as big a fan of New Years as you're going to find. No, not because of the champagne and fireworks, but because I firmly believe that there is no greater, more productive, more compelling time of year to truthfully
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Put a man on a bicycle and he’ll surprise you.
Put a man on a machine and he’ll amaze you.
Teach him asset allocation and he’ll electrify you!
Due to the unusual number of new subscribers who
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With 25 years under his belt at Morningstar, Russel Kinnel, Director of Manager Research, has certainly earned my respect. So my radar went up when he wrote a column entitled “Lessons Learned.” Considering that Kinnel has been a keen observer of individual investor behavior for a generation, I believe all of us can profit by heeding his wisdom.
In the Action Practice #22 blog, I presented my readership with a different kind of challenge for the first time ever. Instead of focusing on charts, I urged my readers to focus on themselves — on what we refer to
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“Rule #1: Never lose Money.”
“Rule #2: Never forget Rule #1.”
—Warren Buffett
Sure, a lot of investors dissect every word that Warren Buffett writes in the annual report for Berkshire Hathaway. For years, these Buffett-isms have provided investors with profitable insights. In a similar vein, I found that the letter Jeff Bezos wrote recently to his shareholders was also full of pithy insights.
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